southoftheborder wrote:Don't get me wrong, I don't think MC is the right manager.
It's always a risk, giving someone without any experience at this level the job (particularly an ex-player).
It worked with Alex.
It doesn't look as though it's working with MC.
However, we are where we are. All the negativity surrounding MC helps nobody. He is our manager, he will be here at Christmas.
So lets ACCEPT it, and make the best of it. Stop all the negative threads - they help no-one.
I think the approach that the club have taken in terms of trying to bring through young coaches as well as players, and promote from within the ranks is a sound approach. However, it has to be recognised that this won't always work and in Martin Canning's case the job has probably come far to early for him and the club should have brought in someone with more experience for a couple of years as manager with MC (and possibly Dougie Imrie) as an assistant.
In terms of asking fans to just 'accept it' - this is neither feasible or realistic. The club has to realise and acknowledge that it's a business, and as such it's asking the paying fan (in reality, customer) £350 for a season ticket or £22 at the gate. If you tally this up with fans buying programmes, food and merchandise the cost could realistically escalate to £500+ over the course of a season.
Taking this into account, along with the loyalty and (for the want of a better word) 'love' that most fans have for their club, people are more than justified in voicing their opinion, whatever that opinion may be. Under no circumstances should any point of view be suppressed (negative or positive), as trying enforce one or the other is actually going to help 'no-one'.
I would suspect that Martin Canning will be given a few months, and at that point the situation evaluated. If the club is serious about the business of football, they will make a call at this point and if it happens to be that MC was the wrong choice then they should be big enough to come out and admit it (they would also need to shoulder the blame for pushing the job at MC to early).